I have iPhoto and an Apple laptop--about the easiest set-up you can get.

Looking through my digital images is very enjoyable.

I NEVER feel guilty about wasting film.

Here are a few more images from our Guatemala adventure. Sorry for the dearth of postings over the weekend. I plan to be as daily as Jon Stewart from here on.

Our Tikal adventure resulted in perhaps the Greatest Day of Birding Ever. Thanks to Marco (left) and Hector, the Manakin (3rd from left).

Marco spotted this orange-breasted falcon and we spent three hours photographing (me) and sketching (JZ) it. THis rare raptor is nesting in the Tikal ruins.

On the way home from Lake Atitlan on Friday, I played guitar on the bus and we sang songs, including La Bamba, La Cucaracha, and Guantanamera (for the horned guan we saw on Volcan San Pedro). There was some Gallo beer involved in our merriment.

About Me

Name: Bill Thompson, III

Location: Southeastern, Ohio, United States

Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest by day. He's also a keen birder, the author of many books, a dad, a field trip leader, an ecotourism consultant, a guitar player, the host of the "This Birding Life" podcast, a regular speaker/performer on the birding festival circuit, a gentleman farmer, and a fungi to be around. His North American life list is somewhere between 667 and 669. His favorite bird is the red-headed woodpecker. His "spark bird" was a snowy owl. He has watched birds in 25 countries and 44 states. But his favorite place to watch birds is on the 80-acre farm he shares with his wife, artist/writer Julie Zickefoose. Some kind person once called Bill "The Pied Piper of Birding" and he has been trying to live up to that moniker ever since.